Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

fritzelly

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

regarding the community transmission: "this is just a single case"

jesus christ....

Does he not understand some unknown case infected him and probably dozens more
Jaysus

Quantum Erasure

"we're still in a containment phase, we can explain the source of every case"

"apart from that one case"

little bess

RollieFingers wrote: »

Have had that typical Irish mentality of not wanting to be the first to do it, but I'm 100% wearing my mask for the commute tomorrow.

I’ve to go to Beaumont, going to bring mine with me, Im not looking forward to sitting in an enclosed waiting room for two hours or more with coughing patients.

billybonkers

rodders999 wrote: »

Ringing for the last 2 hours, no answer. Seems half of Cork may be doing similar.

Nothing on their website either.

I wouldn't be going near CUH at all

babybuilder

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Maybe the admins could put a note at the top of the forum of do's and dont's.

A mask for the public is pointless unless you are a carrier of the virus, when you should be indoors anyway.

So should front line staff not wear any treating infected patients?

whisky_galore

RugbyLad11 wrote: »

The lad speaking now can hardly talk, he keeps messing up his words...he sounds scared

Is he drunk?

is_that_so

harr wrote: »

Still refusing to give details on location or what county the people are from ... Ireland is to small for saying roughly where the outbreaks are .

And yet for most people this would be considered a perfectly appropriate response with respect to patient confidentiality.

the butcher

Chong wrote: »

This Holohan chap is really inept seemingly. It is incredibly unfortunate how he and his team are approaching this.

There is an air about him that I absolutely detest.

This briefing isn't a briefing when there is zero information.

No travel ban either.

cameramonkey

Volthar wrote: »

it is night time. about 18-20 C during the day

not during the last few weeks or months.

harr

“Confident of no more cases , travel ban wouldn’t help stop it .. still saying it’s small number and still in containment stage”

Do these lads really believe that people have confidence in them

As mentioned, we're at the mercy of Britain. This country doesn't have the leadership to make appropriate decisions.

wakka12

Another Iranian member of government has died from coronavirus, diplomat Hossein Sheikholeslam, former ambassador to Syria
https://twitter.com/FarsNews_Agency/status/1235652390201815041
He seems fairly young if that image is recent, looks late fifties

Seamai

Pistachio19 wrote: »

Contact gp in morning to get advice. Personally I wouldn't go near the place.

Neither would I, my elderly mother attends a warfarin clinic every couple of weeks, I've just told her to stay well clear of it.

Andrew00

The numbers are shooting up for a population of our size, compared to the numbers in England.

Shocking

Sierra Oscar

Crisis management team established in CUH after staff had sustained contact with the confirmed case there.

Sounds like no precautions taken, I suppose there wouldn’t be if they hadn’t tested him.

I’d say health workers will be wearing protective equipment routinely fairly sharpish.

Blueshoe

ricero wrote: »

We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

Can't understand how some people believe a department that can't handle day to day running of the health service will suddenly be able to handle this.
Fantasy land

Blueshoe

Blueshoe wrote: »

50 cases in Australia too. It's a million degrees over there .

We're up to 57, localised transmission too. But the interest rates were lowered here too and they are considering quantitative easings.

SeaBreezes

antodeco wrote: »

Why did the HSE need to wait to tell GPs (let alone anybody) to self isolate for 14 days when returning from an infected area. This should have been the first thing that was said. That's the only way you could have actually contained this. They are morons.

In fairness, doctor him/herself should have known. Its the height of hubris..

Of ALL people he would have known the situation in Italy, AND that he was endangering his patients who are only seeing him due to 'underlying issues' ..

Allinall

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

regarding the community transmission: "this is just a single case"

jesus christ....

Fecking hell. If he’s got it then we’ve no chance.
Really hope it’s not trrue.

is_that_so

little bess wrote: »

I’ve to go to Beaumont, going to bring mine with me, Im not looking forward to sitting in an enclosed waiting room for two hours or more with coughing patients.

There seems to be an isolation zone. You do have to be close to people to be at risk. Maybe a time to check with hospital as well?

Mervyn Skidmore

ricero wrote: »

We're in trouble folks. The HSE are incompetent. I reckon we will be over 100 confirmed cases by a fortnight.

That's probably a given. So do you believe every European country has an incompetent health service? It's growing pretty much everywhere.

expectationlost

2 of the new people got it from previous identitifed cases

Spanish Eyes

Love it that Cork is the only place that wasn't given a Provincial name.

Not East, not West, no it's Cork, CUH to be precise it seems. (Donegal is forgotten as always, god love them because they are North).

Hope all will be well for those affected. We may be next, remember that. Who knows at this stage?

SleetAndSnow

Chances of Cork becoming our northern italy?

Pseudonym121

harr wrote: »

Still refusing to give details on location or what county the people are from ... Ireland is to small for saying roughly where the outbreaks are .

This is really wrong-headed. Ireland is so small that you should simply assume you will be in contact with people with COVID19 as it is now circulating in the community. The idea that you’d be safe in Louth or Donegal if it was in CUH is incorrect.

Containment is done, you need to assume it is circulating and that 12 months now roughly 2/3rd of the population will have had it with a commensurate death rate. That works out to roughly 40,000.

If we are lucky and really socially isolate it’ll be much lower but I can’t see it being less than 2,000 over the course of the year.

So there is no point obsessing over whether it is in Cork or Galway or Louth. It is in Ireland, it is in the community and you need to behave as though people you interact with on a daily basis have it no matter where you live.

antodeco

Just isolate everyone who is coming from an infected region. That's stage 1 of containment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-51762074

Child at Alder Hey tests positive.

Very grim news given that particular facility.

Dampsquid

The HSE don't give a **** about protecting the Irish public, its all about, we are doing the same as other countries. Well we can see other countries are having massive outbreaks, we will have the exact same thing happen here.

All cases so far have come in from Italy,(with one exception) but they dont recommend a ban on travel as it would not be effective. Well if they put it in place 1 or 2 weeks ago, we would have probably zero cases to date.

As long as they can point back to international best practice, they have got their backs covered.

martingriff

Andrew00 wrote: »

"ah sure be grand wash your hands" has been the Irish and HSE mentality for the past 4 weeks. Absolute scum of the earth

That's been the message for most countries not the HSE. I forget which of these threads it was but someone but the HSE message up and the the NHS and said at least there telling us what to do and guess what it was the same message maybe worded differently. Sneeze/cough in to your shoulder and wash or yous anti bacterial on your hands. But no because its our guys it can not be trusted. People need to stop take a breath calm down and actually think and not lose the heed

Chong

the butcher wrote: »

There is an air about him that I absolutely detest.

This briefing isn't a briefing when there is zero information.

No travel ban either.

I do believe though his hands are tied here and he is being hung out here to dry as a scapegoat.